Two Networks to air SEA Games in the Philippines
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 05 Nov 2011
Filipinos back home can watch the exploits of their countrymen in the coming 26th Southeast Asian Games right in their living rooms from the three cities in Indonesia. The extensive coverage involving two networks, a first in the Philippine participation in the biennial meet since 1977, will be provided by TV-5 and ABS-CBN, was announced by representatives of both networks during Friday?s SCOOP Sa Kamayan weekly session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura.
Vince Rodriguez, head of the News and Programming of Studio 2, a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corp., and Vito Lazatin, sports manager of TV-5, disclosed during the forum, sponsored by Coca Cola Export, FILA, TV-5 and UNTV, that their respective networks will be devoting timeslots the whole day to cover the sports the Filipino athletes are participating.
ABS-CBN, through Studio 23, according to Rodriguez, will devote eight hours of airing time for its coverage in the Indonesia SEA Games scheduled to formally open next week in the cities of Jakarta and Palembang.
Rodriguez told members of the Sports Communicators Organization of the Philippines the giant broadcast firm will give a morning timeslot from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., an afternoon timeslot from 2 to 6 p.m., and a primetime slot from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. for their comprehensive coverage of the meet among the 11-member nations? finest athletes.
?Focus will be given on gold-medal events of our athletes, hindi lang popular sports," said Rodriguez
TV 5, through its sports channel AKTV on IBC 13, will also have its own SEAG coverage for almost the entire day.
"If we couldn't air live games, we'll deliver the latest updates of events participated in by our athlete, Lazatin, who came to the session with TV5 sports head Dong Capuyan, for his part, said.
?The challenge is to take all of the schedule and make it work. There are schedules which are finalized a day before the competition itself," Lazatin said.
Since both networks have broadcast rights over the SEAG, there will be times when both channels will air the same live events like what happened in Thursday's football hostilities between the Philippines and Vietnam.
ABS-CBN will televise the opening ceremony on Nov. 11 right after the football match pitting the PH squad and Laos, while AKTV will deliver highlights of the ceremony in a segment of their PBA coverage before airing the rest of it after the game.
There was no television coverage during the 2009 Laos edition, but ABS-CBN and GMA provided daily reports and highlights through their nightly news channels. The last full coverage came of the Games was in the 2007 in Thailand.
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